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Tag Archives: David Sylvester

Interviewing Francis Bacon: Unreliable Oral History

Bacon felt very strongly about phraseology. He erased words like ‘very, very’, or ‘well’, and ‘you see’, but added words like ‘accident’ and ‘artificial’.

Franz Kline Discussing Black and White (1960)

“I mean there was that twenty-minute experience of thinking, well, all my life has been wasted but this is marvellous…” – Franz Kline

Francis Bacon – Photographs, Painting, Destructive Criticism and More

“I’ve had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from them.”

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